The Culinary Diary Of Two Mad Women

Diary Entry October 24th, 2018:

I have my first appetizer gig next week.  Again, Elizabeth will be abroad, this time in Italy, learning how to make olive oil.  That woman!  All I have to say is, I better get some olive oil out of it.  Do you hear me, woman?!  Luckily, one of her sons will be there to help.  Phew!  The guest list is a hundred and thirty people and possibly climbing.  I’ll have one hour to pump out over twelve hundred passed bites, while keeping some table items cleaned and stocked.  It’s like being in some sort of horse race only with food.  One bite at a time.  I must be insane.

I won’t be serving caprese, but I needed a pic of SOMEthing to slap up there.  Here’s the actual menu:

~Herbed tenderloin skewers with pumpkin cream

~Roasted vegetables served cold with tonnato sauce

~White wine poached shrimp served cold with remoulade, chimichurri, and fresh ponzu sauces

~Dark chocolate truffles with salty brandy milk chocolate ganache with turbinado sugar

I really want the skewers to be sprigs of rosemary, but that means about six hundred sprigs that I’d have to prep.  I’m only one person.  Yes, I’m looking at you, Elizabeth.  I’ll have to see how….what’s that word?….ambitious…I am.  Wish me luck!